Critical Distance: Keywords in Play
Leisure:Video Games
In 2012, critic and Royal Melbourne Insitute of technology PhD candidate Brendan Keogh released his long form critical piece on Spec Ops: The Line in the form of an ebook. Killing is Harmless: A Critical Reading of Spec Ops: The Line was at the time the first known published book of criticism on a single game. In the years since a cavalcade of books of video game criticism has been published and more to come in the future.
Two years after initially publishing the book, we decided to interview Brendan to get his perspective on the book, the reception and how things have change over time in his critical methods. We also get into musing on the book's cultural and historical placement given the recent boom in video game criticism books.
SHOW NOTES
Brendan Keogh
Critical Damage
Darius Kazemi Review: Killing is Harmless, by Brendan Keogh
Cameron Kunzelman's On Killing is Harmless
Susan Sontag's Against Interpretation
Noal Carroll's On Criticism
David Sudnow's Pilgrim in the Microworld
Spec Ops: The Line Critical Compilation
Opening Theme: 'Close' by The Alpha Conspiracy
Closing Theme: 'Wishing Never' by The Alpha Conspiracy
Episode 45 - Documentary Delight
Episode 44 - A Cagey Interview
Episode 43 - Think, Game, Love
Episode 42 - Great Levels, The Best Levels in Gaming
Episode 41 - Every Game a Painting
Episode 40 - Games Literary Studies on YouTube
Episode 39 - This is Innuendo Studios
Episode 38 - The Spawn of History
Episode 37 - Noah's Crit
Minisode 13 - Soundscapes and Dreamscapes
Episode 36 - The Hows and Whys of TWIVGB
Minisode 12 - Not Dark Souls
Episode 35 - Camp's Signal
Minisode 11 - Grab Bag of Games
Episode 34 - Chat with Matt
Minisode 10 - Abstract Aesthetics
Episode 33 - Game OverThinker
Minisode 09 - Long Games and Short Games
Episode 32 - Supplementary Grades
Episode 31 - Back to the 2015
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